Wow! Wall Gumbies and Mescalito in the same sentence would normally have a "not" somewhere in there. You've certainly exceeded Tom Patey's definition of a beginner: "someone, often dead, who should be kept from the mountains at all cost."

Greg,
Did you do the route all clean (clean using fixed gear)? I didn't notice if you mentioned you did or not.

Looks like they did:

We hoped to keep this a ‘hammerless’ ascent. We had pitons and copperheads in the haulbag, but we didn’t want to use them. (Clean aid doesn’t damage the rock, while whanging in pins certainly does.) At 5:30am on Tuesday, the hammer came out. We used it to crush a stubborn protein drink bottle. We put it back in the bag for the remainder of the trip. [I guess a true ‘hammerless’ ascent would avoid using existing pitons and copperheads in addition to not adding more. We did our best.]

On the expando pitch I tapped a #3 BD stopper with my nut tool a few times to make sure it set. Wally still got that nut out with a jerk. That was the only hammering we did. (I wanted to tap that Tomahawk in, but held my breath as I stepped up instead.)

Photos - Thanks for the layout compliment. In another life I did web design and animation. Dreamweaver for the layout and a pretty common Javascript plugin/script called Lightbox for the photo slideshow.